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Stewart and Sanders issued public apologies following tabloid reports they had a brief affair while Stewart was dating her "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson.
Ross, 33, has mostly retired from modeling and most recently appeared in "Snow White and the Huntsman" as Stewart's mother.
Stewart appeared in public for the first time since the scandal broke on Thursday for the premiere of "On the Road" at the Toronto International Film Festival. Hundreds of "Twilight" fans came out to show support for the 22-year-old actress.
Meanwhile, Alexander Wang's show is one of the hottest tickets at fashion week and he's made a splash before using models who aren't regular runway walkers. Last season it was Gisele Bundchen, Shalom Harlow and Karolina Kurkova. On Saturday, runway graduate Erin Wasson also returned to his catwalk.

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Arreguin said the power went out in her home but no one was injured. The tree branch, which appeared to have rotted out and fallen on its own, missed the car in the driveway and most of the house, hitting only its gutters.
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Pick any one. I wouldn't want someone like that preparing my tax return."
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More than 300 taxpayers in their right mind choose me, an experienced tax preparer with "no letters after his name", over an experienced tax preparer with the letters CPA after his/her name each year, and have been doing so for decades. And many thousands of taxpayers in their right mind choose other experienced and currently uninitialled tax preparers over initialed ones each year.
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(1) I am certainly capable of obtaining either a CPA or EA designation – I have just chosen not to do so because there was no need to do so. I have never attempted to do either and failed.
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(4) I have vocally supported, for the most part, the current IRS tax preparer regulation regime. I have submitted my application and my PTIN has been "fabrezed". I do not fear proper government oversight. I actually welcome the ability to have my training and experience, and competence and currency, recognized by being given the initials RTRP (Registered Tax Return Preparer).
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Reporters hoping to catch a glimpse of George Wesley Huguely V, the wealthy college lacrosse player who became a striped-jumpsuit-wearing inmate, were denied another opportunity on Monday, January 10, as his lawyer won a third continuance in the case in which Huguely is charged with slaying his ex-girlfriend.
"Judge, I can say that both sides have been moving with diligence," declared Huguely lawyer Fran Lawrence. "There's just a lot of stuff that's still out there."
Lawrence noted that the defense team, which also includes Rhonda Quagliana, has yet to examine about 20 of the approximately 112 items arrayed in the case against their client, a 23-year-old whose previous spurts of violence went unpublicized until he allegedly erupted last spring in a fatal rage.
On May 3 inside an apartment on 14th Street, Charlottesville police found the lifeless body of Yeardley Love, a fellow lacrosse player. They arrested Huguely, who lived next door, after he allegedly confessed to repeatedly bashing the young woman's head into a wall of her bedroom and then returning to take her computer and toss it in a dumpster.
Lawyer Lawrence has termed the incident a tragic accident, and he seems eager to win a round in the public relations battle. On Friday, January 7, Charlottesville's top prosecutor revealed a new set of charges against Huguely: felony murder, robbery, burglary, statutory burglary, and grand larceny. Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Chapman didn't, however, mention the charge that got it all started, first-degree murder. Lawrence seized on that.
"We think it is significant that the amended charges acknowledge that there was no premeditation," Lawrence said in a prepared statement.
"That's his spin on it," says legal analyst David Heilberg. "The Commonwealth wants to maximize its leverage, and felony murder"–- typically filed for killing during a robbery–- "is just another theory."
The receptionist in the Commonwealth's Attorney's office confirms that the original charges have not been dropped, and Lawrence declined to answer questions after Monday's hearing.
The case has attracted such widespread national attention that a vaguely-sourced December story about an allegedly impending plea deal caused even respected national media outlets such as CBS to devote multiple minutes of television airtime to rehashing the case. As it turned out, the only real development in the case last month came when the defense asked Judge Robert Downer of Charlottesville General District Court to probe the dead woman's medical records.
At a December 15 hearing, Lawrence produced a Richmond doctor who asserted that Love may have died not from blunt-force trauma–- as the state Medical Examiner ruled–- but from her own prescription to Adderall, a stimulant widely used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Lawrence remains free to pursue the Adderall defense, but Judge Downer denied the wider medical probe.
Huguely was originally set to have his preliminary hearing in June. The first continuance pushed it to October. At the close of the January 10 hearing, the Commonwealth Attorney offered to work out a revised date with the defense before January 21, the date set for hearing that will be pushed back again. "That information," says Chapman, "will be online, or people can call our office to find out."
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Joe Joe- it's par, but at least will not delay his time in jail.
It cost "The Juice" all his money but he got off. I pray dearly Virginia has more common sense than LA.


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If you know me at all, you know that I used bleach and process the SH*T out of my hair. My hair has been red, blue, pink, purple, green, and purple again.
Guess what? I used to have looooong dark luxurious hair back in the dizzay. Now, I have a thin unmanageable mess. I don't regret having fun with my hair, because it was fun, but it's time to get serious.
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Hi love, I have bad news for you – Agadir products are not vegan 🙁 I emailed them and this was their response:
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Our products are not vegan, but we do not test on animals.
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My Favorite are the products from Pro Naturals !!
I gave up lightening my hair slowly over time and straight up bleached my entire head (very fun but a bit impulsive). Now I'm learning as much as I can to keep it light and not orangey in the process… Since you use these products now, I'm wondering if you'd still suggest them for someone who has also just bleached their whole head? Or if its a case by case basis and might work for someone with bleached hair too?
I didn't dye mine afterwards so it's super light.
I still can find the right coloring here
I found Acure Leave-In Conditioner spray last weekend and have used it. Since summer is here and I will spend time poolside, I need something to protect my locks. So far, so good!


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And all you other politicians trying to hate on my man,
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You can't stop what's bout to happen, we bout to make history
The first black president is destined and it's meant to be
The threats ain't fazing us, the nooses or the jokes
So get off your ass, black people, it's time to get out and vote!
Paint the White House black and I'm sure that's got 'em terrified
McCain don't belong in any chair unless he's paralyzed
Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped
Ball up all of his speeches and just throw 'em like candy wrap
'cause what you talking I hear nothing even relevant
and you the worst of all 43 presidents
Get out and vote or the end'll be near
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The Charter ( Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium.A Physician's Charter) did not deal with just the important relationship of ...
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Answering services should not make it hard to talk to physician
The survey admittedly was small, only 35 physicians offices were contacted and of those 14 used answering services and 9 of those asked the patients to decide if their call should be fowarded to the doctor. The small sample size precludes robust conclusions about how widespread the practice might be. An larger earlier study by the same lead author involved 91 primary care offices and in 55 the answering services "forced" the patients to decide if it was an emergency requiring a call back from the physician. Clearly ,this is not a good practice but I have encountered worse. I have attempted to contact physicians after hours, and sometimes on Friday afternoon and been unable to contact them at all or anyone providing coverage. The answering machine-not even a human- informs the caller what the office hours are and that if they have an emergency they should go to the nearest emergency room.
Another approach is the nurse telephone triage. While this is better I have some uneasy feeling about this as well. When you get old and cranky you tend to think if things are not done like you did them they are off base. When I was in private practice all calls were referred by the answering service to either the patient's physician or the on call doctor.
Dr. Bruce Bagley,the medical director for quality at the American Academy of Family Physicians, is quoted in the American Medical News story about the article:
"You want the highest level clinical person determining what's an emergency, not a person at an answering service who knows nothing from nothing."
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- Anonymous said...
Doctors can make the rules clear to their answering services; I'd say, in other words, it's up to the doc to see that it's not the service that's deciding. If someone called for me, I got the call. The only thing the service did was collect a little basic info so I'd know whether to drop everything and return the call or if I had time to finish what I was doing. The problem with answering services is that they regularly get confused (it's a hard job, typically too few people handling too many calls) about who's on call, which docs had what instructions. My problem, for the most part, was that they DIDN"T call me, forgetting I wanted to be informed no matter who was on call
- james gaulte said...
Thanks for the comment.The way I had written the post seemed to imply the answering services were the villians.Of course, the doctors are the ones who should be giving the instructions to the service.In my group IM practice a physician called every patient back after being notified by the service.
- Carol said...
In college I worked at an answering service. Our favorite doctors were the ones who gave instructions like this:
Tell the patients I check in for calls ever hour or so. Ask them if they can wait until then, or if you need to page me urgently.
The patients liked not being pressured to choose emergency or not. The patients rarely even chose urgent because they knew they WOULD get a call from the doctor, and the doctor got to respond to urgent needs while still being able to have supper or read to his/her kid. The key was...the doctor had to remember to check in!
- Richard A Schoor MD FACS said...
I am in solo practice urology and have established absolutely no barriers after hours between existing patients, prospective patients, or referring doctors and me. And I am rarely, if ever called! I found, as others have, that when you, the physician, makes it clear that you are available, patients are respectful.
Richard A Schoor MD FACS
- Doctor Answering Service said...
The prime objective of a physician answering service is to help patients to get in touch with their doctor in case of an emergency, but both, doctors as well as patients misuse this service. Doctors try to filter the calls for their convenience and patients keep on bothering their doctor for less important queries. Their should be a balance in the approach.
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Nearly 90 percent of respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll support Rochester Mayor Thomas Richards' run for re-election. Richards announced at a news conference Wednesday morning that he plans to run for mayor in November.
Richards, who became mayor by winning a March 2011 special election after predecessor Robert Duffy was elected lieutenant governor, could face a Democratic primary challenge from City Council President Lovely Warren, who said she is weighing a run.
When asked whom they favored in a primary contest between Richards and Warren, 92 percent said they favored Richards.
Richards was sworn in as mayor in April 2011. The endorsed candidate of the Monroe County Democratic Committee in the special election, he outpolled former Mayor William Johnson Jr., the Working Families and Independence party candidate, and Alex White, who ran on the Green Party line.
Richards previously served more than four years as corporation counsel and two months as deputy mayor.
Warren has served on City Council since 2007, representing the Northeast District, and became president in January 2010. She also is lead counsel and chief of staff to state Assemblyman David Gantt, D-Rochester.
Roughly 740 readers participated in this week's poll, which was conducted Feb. 4 and 5, before Richards announced he would run.
Do you want Rochester Mayor Thomas Richards to run for re-election?
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In a primary contest between Mayor Thomas Richards and City Council President Lovely Warren, whom would you favor?
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It appears he has done a more-than-adequate job, he is crazy enough to want the job and his re-election may mean the city has to pay a pension to one fewer politician if he is re-elected. Being as I live in the suburbs, it really is none of my business, but thanks for asking.
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I think it is way too early to answer question No. 2. I would want to hear them frame the issues. —Alma Balonon-Rosen, Enterprise Community Partners
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—Ken Maher
Richards is an outstanding mayor and representative of our community. He is solid on both the issues and the politics of the problems that we face. I spend a lot of my time advocating for Rochester and could not think of a better partner.
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Tom Richards is a wonderful public servant who has put our community needs ahead of his own interests. May his kind prosper and multiply!
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I feel the city is beginning to make strides to become something worth frequenting again. Rochester appears to be run a lot better than it was. I give Richards a thumbs-up; I'd vote for him.
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In these challenging times, the city of Rochester cannot afford to not have Mayor Tom Richards as our leader.
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Tom Richards has done a superb job helping to resurrect a city that has been slowly coming back. We are fortunate to have a man who doesn't need to work, work for Rochester!
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It's nice have a businessperson in a prime position in the city. Mayor of Rochester is second only to county manager in local government's importance for the long-term growth of this total marketplace.
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I live in the city and work in the city. I have been heavily involved in city school issues, and my children are city school graduates. Tom Richards is the most effective mayor we've had since Tom Ryan. Tom is bright, collaborative, practical and fiscally responsible. He is the perfect mayor for this time in our history.
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If there was to be a primary race between Tom Richards and Lovely Warren, my only question would be: "Where do I send my contribution check to support Tom?"
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Tom Richards has no identifiable vision for moving Rochester out of its 30-year doldrums. He is managing (the city's) continuing decline, a city in a slow death spiral toward Detroit-like status (or Buffalo). The city needs a new generation of leaders. I'm not sure Lovely Warren is that person, yet, but the 60-something generation has had its time and, frankly, failed. Next generation up at bat.
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Mayor Richards is a proven leader and manager. It would be insane to switch mayors, when the city faces unprecedented fiscal challenges. The mayor has a diverse and highly effective management team who are collectively doing an exceptional job of running the city. City Council also is doing an excellent job of representing the people of the city and working with the mayor. Mayor Richards is the best choice at this point.
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The United States Congress is now adding to the protections offered in the federal anti-discrimination laws. The information below was copied and pasted from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/politics/senate-lgbt-workplace-discrimination/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
"For the first time, the U.S. Senate approved legislation that would protect gay, lesbian and transgender employees from discrimination in the workplace.
The Employment Nondiscrimination Act, or ENDA, passed the Democratic-led chamber on Thursday, 64 to 32.
Ten Republicans joined 52 Democrats and two Independents in supporting the bill. Four Senators did not vote.
Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake became the latest GOP members to support the measure. They joined Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Susan Collins of Maine, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, and the bill's co-sponsor, Ron Kirk of Illinois.
"The workplace is simply no place for discrimination," Collins said before the vote.
Opposition in the Republican-controlled House is strong, minimizing any chance the measure will become law. House Speaker John Boehner also opposes it.
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"One party in one house of Congress should not stand in the way of millions of Americans who want to go to work each day and simply be judged by the job they do," the President said in a statement. "Now is the time to end this kind of discrimination in the workplace, not enable it. I urge the House Republican leadership to bring this bill to the floor for a vote and send it to my desk so I can sign it into law."
The bill would provide the same protections for LGBT workers as are already guaranteed on the basis of race, gender and religion.
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ENDA's path began in earnest in 1994, the first time it was introduced in Congress.
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In 2009, an ailing Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, wanted to make sure the issue didn't fall by the wayside. Just months before he died, Kennedy asked newly elected Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, to take the reins.
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Sexual orientation and Employment Nondiscrimination Act: How we got here
Kirk voted for it while in the House and has been a co-sponsor. The two lawmakers lobbied colleagues, leading to Thursday's Senate vote.
Merkley remembered Kennedy's passion for the legislation, quoting him before final Senate action: "The promise of America will never be fulfilled as long as justice is denied to even one among us."
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"The Speaker believes this legislation will increase frivolous litigation and cost American jobs, especially small business jobs," Boehner's spokesman, Michael Steel, said.
Chad Griffin, president of the LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign, had harsh words for Boehner.
"The Speaker, of all people, should certainly know what it's like to go to work every day afraid of being fired. Instead of letting the far right trample him again, it's time for Speaker Boehner to stand with the majority of everyday Republican voters and support ENDA," Griffin said earlier this week.
Regardless proponents are applauding Senate action.
"Equality means equality in the workplace, as much as anywhere else in our lives," said Lisa A. Linsky, trial partner and partner-in-charge of LGBT Diversity and Inclusion at international law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP.
Opinion: It's 'way past time' for gay rights law
Opponents say ENDA will have "a chilling effect on free speech as well as religious liberty" by requiring secular businesses who have a moral objection to LGBT people to not discriminate against them.
Efforts to expand the religious protection component of the bill to secular businesses failed.
The Traditional Values Coalition says passage of ENDA would "hurt kids."
"Young students in some states are already being confused by transgender teachers," a fact sheet by the Traditional Values Coalition read. "If ENDA passes, students and children in daycare centers all across the nation will be subjected to individuals experimenting with their gender identities."
Twenty-one states currently have laws protecting lesbian and gay workers from discrimination and 17 states protect transgender workers, according to the Human Rights Campaign."


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LIVERPOOL boss Brendan Rodgers has hinted new signing Daniel Sturridge will be given a central striking role at Liverpool.
The 23-year-old completed his move from Chelsea on Wednesday and looks set to be given the central role ahead of Luis Suarez, who has scored 15 goals in the Premier League this season.
"His best position is as a central striker," Rodgers said of Sturridge. "I have said 4-3-3 will become richer because of the type of players and there is not one way to play 4-3-3.
"You can have one up and two wingers, a floating nine like Luis Suarez, or you can have one like Daniel Sturridge playing centrally, with two in and around him playing narrow and full backs bombing on.
"The principles of your game are based on your players. I think for Daniel his best position will be through the middle with his pace."
That raises questions about the role of Suarez, who has been one of the top performers in the league this season.
"Luis will play for the common good of the team," Rodgers said. "I spoke with Luis at length on this subject a number of times. This has been the plan for a few months.
"When he played at Ajax he played in behind the central striker as a No 10, in between the lines.
"He also played as a reverse winger from the left side. He wasn't quite out wide, he was tucked in round the corner.
"Wherever he plays he will make the same movements and he will find the space because he is a world-class player. It is not a problem at all.
"It is never a problem having top players so don't talk about problems with players. We need good players."


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"President Obama has arguably established the authority of the president to intervene militarily virtually anywhere without the consent or the approval of Congress, at his own discretion and for as long as he wishes."
�President Obama has arguably established the authority of the president to intervene militarily virtually anywhere without the consent or the approval of Congress, at his own discretion and for as long as he wishes.�
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?As America tiptoes toward a fourth intervention in an opaque and uncontrollable conflict � now Syria, after Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya � Webb�s words require two modifications: Obama has demonstrated a power, not an authority; only the Constitution authorizes. And as Webb understands, Obama has been able to do so only because Congress has become too supine to wield its constitutional powers.
Webb, a Virginia Democrat who declined to seek a second Senate term, vents his dismay in the essay �Congressional Abdication� (in The National Interest), a trenchant indictment of the irrelevance of an institution to which the Constitution gives �certain powers over the structure and use of the military.� The president, Webb says, is commander in chief but only in �executing policies shepherded within the boundaries of legislative powers.� Those powers have, however, atrophied from a disuse amounting to institutional malfeasance as Congress has forfeited its role in national-security policymaking.
Webb, who was a Marine infantry officer in Vietnam and Navy secretary for Ronald Reagan, remembers when Congress was �fiercely protective of its powers.�
In December 2008, George W. Bush�s administration signed with Iraq a Strategic Framework Agreement that was, Webb says, �not quite a treaty� requiring two-thirds Senate approval, but neither was it merely implementing current policy and law. It outlined the U.S. role in defending Iraq, in promoting reconciliation and in combating terrorists.
For more than a year the agreement was negotiated, but there was no meaningful consultation with Congress, no congressional debate on its merits and none sought by congressional leaders. In contrast to Congress� passivity regarding policy toward �an unstable regime in an unstable region,� Iraq�s parliament voted on the agreement � twice.
In May 2012, Obama visited Afghanistan to sign �a legally binding executive agreement� concerning the structure of future U.S.-Afghan relations, U.S. commitments to Afghan security and an anticipated U.S. presence beyond 2014. The agreement calls Afghanistan a �Major Non-NATO Ally.� Congress was not formally consulted about this, but Afghanistan�s parliament voted on it.
Noting that in foreign as well as domestic policy Obama is �acutely fond of executive orders designed to circumvent the legislative process,� Webb recalls that in 2009 the administration said it would return from the U.N. Copenhagen conference on climate change with a �binding� commitment for an emission-reduction program. So Webb wrote to remind the president that �only specific legislation agreed upon in the Congress, or a treaty ratified by the Senate, could actually create such a commitment.�
Webb notes that presidents now act as though they have become de facto prime ministers, unconstrained by the separation of powers. This transformation was dramatized in the Libya intervention:
�Was our country under attack, or under the threat of imminent attack? No. � Were we invoking the inherent right of self-defense as outlined in the U.N. Charter? No. Were we called upon by treaty commitments to come to the aid of an ally? No. Were we responding in kind to an attack on our forces elsewhere, as we did in the 1986 raids in Libya after American soldiers had been killed in a Berlin disco? No. Were we rescuing Americans in distress, as we did in Grenada in 1983? No."
Instead, �we took military action against a regime that we continued to recognize diplomatically, on behalf of disparate groups of opposing forces whose only real point of agreement was that they wished to rid Libya of (Moammar) Gadhafi. The result? �Rampant lawlessness� perhaps related to the murder of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and �the regionwide dispersion of thousands of weapons from Gadhafi�s armories.�
The question, Webb says, is whether in �a world filled with cruelty,� presidents should be allowed to �pick and choose when and where to use military force� by merely citing the �undefinable rubric of �humanitarian intervention.�?�
Imperial presidents and invertebrate legislators of both parties have produced what Webb correctly calls �a breakdown of our constitutional process.� Syria may be the next such bipartisan episode.
George F. Will writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.


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Jordan and Eric Staal help Canes beat Maple Leafs
- Carolina goalie Cam Ward made a season-high 41 saves%2C including 18 in the 3rd period%2C in the Hurricanes 4-1 win
- Jordan Staal scored his first goal with the Hurricanes in the second period to tie the game
- Toronto%27s Phil Kessel had a chance to score his first goal this season on a power play%2C but was denied
TORONTO (AP) — Jordan Staal scored his first goal with the Hurricanes, and his brother Eric added the winner in Carolina's 4-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday night.
Jeff Skinner had three assists, Patrick Dwyer added a goal and an assist, and Justin Faulk also scored for Carolina. Cam Ward backed up the offense with a 41-save performance.
Matt Frattin scored the only goal for the Maple Leafs. James Reimer made 35 saves.
Trailing 1-0 after the first period, the Hurricanes tied it 1:21 into the second. After Skinner beat out an icing call, Dwyer fed Jordan Staal, who was alone in front, for his first goal with the Hurricanes since being acquired from Pittsburgh in June. Staal also assisted on Dwyer's third-period goal.
Eric Staal then hit the post with a drive a few minutes later. The Hurricanes rebounded from a sluggish opening period to grab momentum with the first nine shots of the second.
The Hurricanes captain had better luck with his next chance, giving Carolina (4-4) the lead with his seventh goal of the season at 10:21 on the power play.
With Toronto's Jay McClement serving a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct after giving Ward a snow shower, Eric Staal skated out from the corner and sent a cross-crease pass that deflected in off defenseman Mike Kostka.
The Maple Leafs (4-5) thought they had tied it with 1:16 left in the second when Kostka's shot from the point deflected in off Tyler Bozak. But after a video review, officials ruled the Toronto center kicked the puck in past Ward.
The home crowd was further incensed when the Maple Leafs were assessed back-to-back penalties to close out the period.
With Carolina on a 5-on-3 man advantage to start the third, Faulk finished off a pretty tic-tac-toe passing play 43 seconds in with a goal that also went to a video review.
Toronto's Phil Kessel, who has no goals through the first nine games of the season, had a great chance to net his first during a power play but he was denied by Ward with just over 13 minutes remaining.
The Maple Leafs continued to press, but Ward stopped Nazem Kadri and Bozak to maintain the Hurricanes' two-goal edge. Carolina put the game out of reach when Dwyer beat Reimer with a quick shot at 9:58.
Frattin opened the scoring 5:44 into the game. Kadri carried the puck over the blue line on a 2-on-1. After fanning on his first attempt, he fired a weak shot that Ward kicked into the slot.
Frattin pounced on the rebound and scored his fifth goal in six games since being recalled from Toronto of the AHL.
Frattin has made the most of his opportunity on a line with Kadri and Leo Komorav.
NOTES: Kadri was hurt after blocking a shot in front of Reimer in the first period but didn't miss a shift. ... Referee Marc Joannette was hit by a clearing shot from Maple Leafs D Dion Phaneuf in the second period. He received attention from the Maple Leafs training staff and returned later in the period. ... The Maple Leafs open a three-game road trip on Tuesday in Washington. ... The Hurricanes visit Ottawa on Thursday.


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This week on View from the Gutters, our topic work is Strange Attractors, by Charles Soule, Greg Scott, and Robert Saywitz. Set in present day New York City, Strange Attractors is the story of a young graduate student, an aging math professor, and the odd magic they weave protecting New York from collapsing into chaos.
It features an elegant style of artwork which grounds the realism of the story, and impresses upon the reader just how close we are to a world like this one. It's also a great story if you like math wizards and acts of SCIENCE! While not necessarily to everyone's tastes, Strange Attractors is another incredible independent release by Archaia Press, who have published several great works previously either recommended or discussed on the podcast, including Jim Henson's Tale of Sand.
In our recommendation section our hosts nominated Global Frequency, Thor: God of Thunder, Vol. 1 & 2, Saga, Vol. 1, Young Avengers: Sidekicks, and Superior Spider-Man, Vol. 1 for discussion on the next episode, and our selected title is Thor: God of Thunder, Vol. 1 & 2.
Our hosts for this episode were Andrew Chard, Joe Preti, Matt McGinnis, Tobiah Panshin, and Cade Reynolds.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Bombing Suspect Has Online Following
Thousands of people have said they believe suspect was framed.
April 24, 2013 -- Boston has rallied around its police and victims of the marathon bombing, but there are thousands of people who are rallying around Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man accused carrying out the atrocity.
"We truly believe he has been set up and that there is not enough evidence to incriminate him," said the Facebook group "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is Innocent," which has more than 12,000 members.
On Twitter, the hashtag #FreeJahar, the nickname Tsarnaev goes by, has gained traction. A Change.org petition addressed to President Obama has garnered more than 6,000 signatures, saying Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who died in a gun battle with police, are "wrongfully accused of something they did not do."
Tsarnaev was read his rights and charged on Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting in death. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.
Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the accused bombers, said that his sons were "set up" and that they are "very nice kids" who have no experience with weapons and explosives.
It's a conclusion many of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's supporters have also reached.
At the center of the Twitter movement to exonerate the teenager is Troy Crossley, 20, of Chelsea, Mass., who said he is a friend of Tsarnaev.
READ: Boston Bomb Suspect's Dad Learns of Son's Capture: 'Tell Police Everything'
READ: The Criminal Complaint Against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Crossley did not return a request for an interview, however he has been one of his Tsarnaev's most prolific supporters, rousing an online base of people who believe there's more to the story than what federal investigators laid out in a charging document on Monday.
For other supporters, sympathy for the suspect seemed to be the reason they vocalized their support.
"#freejahar he had his whole life ahead of him. He was a Wrestler & in collage. He was gonna do good in life. I just cant see him doing this," @OnneDirection5 tweeted.
"Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is really cute. I don't care what anyone says," @Cristina__Des tweeted. "I'd date him."
Many notorious accused criminals have attracted legions of fans.
Confessed killer Jodi Arias has sold paintings for $300 a pop on eBay. Luka Magnotta, the so-called "Cannibal killer" and onetime porn actor has attracted legions of female fans who fawn over his photos. And Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of killing her daughter, lives "free off the kindness of others," receiving cash and gift cards in the mail.


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Turning Over the Management of a Family Business
Turning Over the Management of a Family Business
Succession is another troublesome issue for in-laws and their family business. That canny CEO Queen Elizabeth I solved the problem by deciding not to retire -- but then again, she had the ultimate in job security. Difficulty deciding when to retire or not is a surprisingly common situation for the CEOs who rule by blood lines, whether they're royal or not.
It's All Relative
The Windsors' role in governing the British Empire is ceremonial, but they take it very seriously nonetheless. The ne plus ultra of in-laws as outlaws, they refer to their task as monarchs as carrying out " the family business." You think it's tough working for your in-laws? Try it if your boss is the queen!
I don't know what excuses today's Queen Elizabeth gives her son Charles, but I do know the Top 10 reasons that CEOs of family business often give for not turning the reigns of their companies over to their in-laws. And here they are, in reverse order:
"Too many people I've known have died soon after they retired (or acted like they were dead)."
"Without me, the business is nothing."
"Without the business, I'm nothing."
"I hate gardening, find cruises boring, and get sunburned if I play too much golf."
"I need someplace to go. My spouse married me for better or for worse-but not for lunch!"
"My in-laws want to change the way the business is run. If I'm not there, they will destroy what I've built!"
"I don't want to choose between my in-laws to name a successor."
"The business is my major source of income. My in-laws will run it to the ground."
"Nobody can run the business as well as I can."
"They may run it better than I did!"
Family Matters
Money issues can be more delicate than a man's ego. To solve money issues, it may be necessary to use experts to facilitate the dialogue in the beginning, or at points along the way.
Family Matters
While there's no link between early death and retirement, you can probably ensure a longer, healthier retirement if you develop interests outside the business. Women, consider golf, bridge, or visiting the Chippendales on a regular basis, for example.
Don't Go There
Members of a family businesses often take themselves quite seriously. In part, that's because there's often constant job and family pressure. In family business, there's no let-up, no disengagement. Even though that's the nature of the beast, you can build in some pressure valves -- and you must.
And your ammunition for the response volley
There's no correlation between mortality and retirement. (Though if you outstay your welcome in the business, there's no saying that an overly ambitious in-law won't cosh you a good one with a nine-iron.)
Hey, kid, can we rein in that ego? What are you -- a legend in your own mind?
Retirement doesn't have to be an "all or nothing" proposition. There are many constructive ways you can maintain your identity and connection with the business. Why not spend time with your successors and trusted advisors investigating all the possibilities? (That should kill at least a year.)
So find other leisure activities that excite you. Do those things you've always wanted to do, but for which you never had the time.
True fact, boss. There is no denying that major life changes can stress any relationship. Get a new focus on your life, one that keeps you out of your spouse's face.
If the business doesn't change to keep up with new demands, it will suffer. Businesses thrive on fresh ideas and energy. Do you really mean to tell me that you didn't make any changes when you became the head honcho?
So let them duke it out after you're gone. Better yet, involve them in the decision now.
You ran a business and you don't know how to invest your money? Please. This excuse is lame.
No one is indispensable; we can all be replaced. (Okay, maybe not Cindy Crawford and Brad Pitt, but even Rin Tin Tin lost his slot to a puppy.) Besides, you're probably not the only one running your business now. You may make major decisions, but chances are, you're not involved in all the details.
And what's wrong with that? Complete succession planning will help your business thrive under the next generation. This is one of the most important legacies you can create for your family.
Here are tips and tricks for getting along with your in-laws.


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Dr. Brilliant: "Yes, what can I do for you?"
Dr. Grumpy: "I sent Mr. Jones to you - you saw him earlier today - for a second opinion on his weird muscle disease. What did you think?"
Dr. Brilliant: "I'd like to know what his EMG showed."
Dr. Grumpy: "Well..."
Dr. Brilliant: "You know, I don't mind doing second opinions. But it's not helpful when you don't send all the information with the patient."
Dr. Grumpy: "Because..."
Dr. Brilliant: "I cannot help the patient without the test results. Could you have your staff send the EMG to me?
Dr. Grumpy: "YOU DID THE EMG YOURSELF! 2 weeks ago! I sent him to you for the test!"
(long pause)
Dr. Brilliant: "Let me get back to you."